UPDATE: Two boxed vials of the Lumina treatment arrived in the mail for me last week. I’ve put them in the fridge for best shelf life and plan to bring one to my next cleaning. I got my wisdom tooth surgery over a decade ago, and to the best of my knowledge I have no active caries.
I am an Asian ~30yo man (ethnically Korean, specifically) who has suffered from bad cavities all his life and who also suffers from Asian glow to the point of it being uncomfortable to drink; I am also planning to get the Lumina treatment. I do not think that the amount of alcohol produced is particularly relevant; I drink occasionally and eat a ton of fruit, and thus I think that my marginal risk is basically negligible.
I don’t smoke, and to the best of my knowledge, I have no particular family history of cancer, let alone oral/esophageal cancer, despite high rates of smoking in my family history.
As such, I’m pretty sure that the expected value calculation is overdetermined towards “get the Lumina”, given how unpleasant caries and carie treatment are for me and the (weak but maybe real?) connection between caries and Alzheimer’s. Given a choice of damnations, I think I’d prefer oral cancer to Alzheimer’s even with ~identical proportional changes in likelihood; given how dubious I am on the marginal risk of oral cancers to start with, I’m only that much more set on fixing my oral microbiome.
If anyone wants me to take measurements or keep data or logs of observations, please let me know.
UPDATE: Two boxed vials of the Lumina treatment arrived in the mail for me last week. I’ve put them in the fridge for best shelf life and plan to bring one to my next cleaning. I got my wisdom tooth surgery over a decade ago, and to the best of my knowledge I have no active caries.
I am an Asian ~30yo man (ethnically Korean, specifically) who has suffered from bad cavities all his life and who also suffers from Asian glow to the point of it being uncomfortable to drink; I am also planning to get the Lumina treatment. I do not think that the amount of alcohol produced is particularly relevant; I drink occasionally and eat a ton of fruit, and thus I think that my marginal risk is basically negligible.
I don’t smoke, and to the best of my knowledge, I have no particular family history of cancer, let alone oral/esophageal cancer, despite high rates of smoking in my family history.
As such, I’m pretty sure that the expected value calculation is overdetermined towards “get the Lumina”, given how unpleasant caries and carie treatment are for me and the (weak but maybe real?) connection between caries and Alzheimer’s. Given a choice of damnations, I think I’d prefer oral cancer to Alzheimer’s even with ~identical proportional changes in likelihood; given how dubious I am on the marginal risk of oral cancers to start with, I’m only that much more set on fixing my oral microbiome.
If anyone wants me to take measurements or keep data or logs of observations, please let me know.